Is it worth a singleplayer?

[Bonebreaker]

Hy i just have a simple question. Is this game worth my time if i just want to chill and do a bit pve stuff without any pvp at all or players open for attack everytime and everywhere?

[Silenzeio]

Safer Seas is always open.

[Deylendor]

Take it from a new player. Without the people, this game can be quite nice.

And with friends... well, everything is better with friends.

[Jim]

It can be overall enjoyable in Safer Seas, albeit the gold is reduced. My personal recommendation for any new player is follow the 3 simple rules.
1.) Keep your eyes peeled.
2.) Trust no pirate.
3.) Know your ship.

[Deylendor]

Do the Math yourself. Apparently safer seas give 70% of rewards in gold.

If you loose your cargo or quest progress 1 of 3 times per haul to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in PvP or griefing, why wouldn't you play safer seas as a new player to have time and the peace to learn the game?

As a new player I couldn't care less about the bloated offers and factions in the game right now. Let me get to know them in peace without worrying someone firebombing my docked ship while doing so.

That we can't use guild/captain ships in the safe seas is beyond stupid imo.
Let me awe at that overpriced shipname sign I bough to feel somewhat attached to MY/guild ship wherever I want ffs.

Gatekeeping a shipname and ship customisation to PvP ... the stupidity

[Keyrala]

If your only objective in the game is stacking money and unlocking cosmetics, not really... If you care about some lore, exploring, chilling, puzzles, riddles and such, yes.

[VectorMane]

Pros:
+ No other players to worry about (no PVP)
+ Do whatever you want
+ Game's fully playable solo

Cons:
- Less rewards
- Extreme/Very high difficulty (no playercount-based scaling)
- A few limited/restricted features (Can't use your own ship, have to charter one)
- Fighting enemy ships has a low chance of you surviving (unless you're smart)
- Solo'ing boss fights takes a long time (i managed to solo one and win in 14 minutes)
- Your ship can be cheesed by sea monsters (they typically just circle you until you attack)
- You're doing ALL tasks yourself (can be overbearing tasks since the game is meant for co-op)
- Queue up for Safer Seas takes quite a long time (averages around 5 to 30 minutes due to high demand for safer seas servers)

Overall, it's still ok to play solo, just expect a huge increase in difficulty, as well as a longer wait time to queue up for a solo session. You either have to train yourself, or play the patience game in a lot of scenarios.

[Deylendor]

Originally posted by VectorMane:

Pros:
- You're doing ALL tasks yourself (can be overbearing tasks since the game is meant for co-op

What? I can't play safer seas with my buddies? Is it solo only???

[VectorMane]

Originally posted by Deylendor:

Originally posted by VectorMane:

Pros:
- You're doing ALL tasks yourself (can be overbearing tasks since the game is meant for co-op

What? I can't play safer seas with my buddies? Is it solo only???

You can invite them yes.

[Deylendor]

Originally posted by VectorMane:

Originally posted by Deylendor:

What? I can't play safer seas with my buddies? Is it solo only???

You can invite them yes.

Thank reason they made it possible!

Well, I'll be playing high seas too even if I am new. Not for the cheaters, not for the griefers. But for the guy who came to our ship, just chatted and have us the basic rundown. And for the guy who suddenly hero jumped somehow on my ship with a crate cannonballs, wood and food.

[RatBoggles]

Yeah you can go solo, but the seas are pretty boring as is, even moreso if you're by yourself.

[Meewec]

Originally posted by Deylendor:

Do the Math yourself. Apparently safer seas give 70% of rewards in gold.

thought it was 30%

[Ndubitably]

Single player as in just you against the world? On sale I think it could provide enough of a "privateer/explorer simulator" experience.
It's far better as a social experience though. On the ship the more tasks you can do concurrently, the more successful your crew will be. The game is designed for more than one person. On land, ammo is generalIy scarce. That said, there are plenty of videos on YouTube of solo players having success.
I read that they introduced private server instances so that it's just you and your friend(s) free to explore.
If GamePass is an option, you could give it a try for a potentially low cost of entry.

[Culiacan]

Originally posted by Dad:

It can be overall enjoyable in Safer Seas, albeit the gold is reduced. My personal recommendation for any new player is follow the 3 simple rules.
1.) Keep your eyes peeled.
2.) Trust no pirate.
3.) Know your ship. :sotxbones:

LIKE THE SONG?????? Just keep your eyes peeled tururururu

[Opossum Boy]

Game is open PvP. Players can and will attack you, unless you play on "safer seas" mode, which removes a lot of features and just isn't very good. Fortunately, PvP doesn't seem to be as big of a feature as you'd think, and a lot of the times you can just sail away from enemy ships and they'll leave you alone because chasing is such a tedious task.

If you plan on being a true solo, your options are severely limited (only one ship is really viable as a solo player, and even that is a challenge to manage as a newbie) and it seems like the next update will actually make it even harder for players on their own. If you have a microphone, you can find some great teammates in "Open Crew", which provides you random crewmembers. So long as you are patient with the younger players, you'll have a wonderful time. I have played open crew for years and have had maybe four actively toxic crewmembers.


Tough to gauge. Next update a bunch of new players will be brought in from Playstation and I think it would be a great time to start, as many other players are new. However, if you are against having random crewmembers, you'll be facing an uphill battle and quite frankly the game is very lonely if you don't have someone to chat with while on the open sea.

[CostlySpider]

You can solo, depends on the pve stuff you want to do, If I would say safer seas or higher seas.

Tale tales, safer seas. Just not worth getting jumped, doing story missions. Any quest that you are going to be on an island like for a really long time. Riddle quests, for example.

If you do not want to cheat, you tube were clues are, then you can be on island a long time. Means your boat is left alone for a really long time. Or your wasting time constantly on lookout for boats coming towards you. Heading back to your boat to see if any reapers have spawned. It just takes to risky to do by yourself for the rewards you may get.

Other missions are fast merchants lost shipment, gold hoarders vault runs. You can do them fairly quick.And are not of boat a lot. Worth the risk on higher seas.